Seeing is believing. Ikena Forensic enhances video from any source to clarify the critical question: What happened? With Ikena Forensic, analysts can quickly and easily identify important details like faces and the make/model of cars to produce forensically valid evidence. Now, decision makers like judges and juries can clearly see the facts that only experts could discern before.

Ikena Forensic is currently used in law enforcement, commercial security, intelligence, test & measurement and transportation.

The Background:A Montana State Trooper was killed during a high-speed pursuit of a suspect on a Montana highway. The suspect fled the scene. MotionDSP’s Role:Ikena Forensic enabled analysts to stabilize the shaky, blurred video...

The Background:A Montana State Trooper was killed during a high-speed pursuit of a suspect on a Montana highway. The suspect fled the scene.

MotionDSP’s Role:Ikena Forensic enabled analysts to stabilize the shaky, blurred video retrieved from the trooper’s mounted dashboard camera. Using an overlay from a still photograph taken at the scene, MotionDSP engineers clearly proved what happened: the suspect’s car was driving on the wrong side of the road when it clipped an oncoming truck. This action forced the truck to veer into the trooper’s car, resulting in the state trooper’s death. Ikena also clarified the image of the suspect’s car, aiding in identifying the make and model so the suspect could be identified.

The Result:While the case is ongoing, MotionDSP provided a strong lead in the search for the suspect and enabled the police to use the crude VHS tape from the on-board camera as forensic evidence to prove that the suspect's illegal actions directly caused the death of the state trooper.

The Background:
Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) had surveillance video of a suspect’s vehicle passing a security camera. Although the vehicle was in clear view, the letters on the license plate were unreadable....

Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) had surveillance video of a suspect’s vehicle passing a security camera. Although the vehicle was in clear view, the letters on the license plate were unreadable.

MotionDSP’s Role:

At a training session, a NCIS analyst used Ikena Forensic to reconstruct the characters on a license plate using Ikena’s super-resolution (which combines the best information from multiple frames of video) and MotionDSP’s patented de-interlacing algorithm. Immediately, the license plate characters were visible.

The Result:

With the license plate details in hand, the Navy was able to conduct a database search that led to a positive ID of the perpetrator.

Background:
Shoplifting and employee theft cost US businesses billions of dollars annually. Retailers maintain a database of known thieves and shoplifters, and keep photos of the individuals. They compare surveillance images with...

Shoplifting and employee theft cost US businesses billions of dollars annually. Retailers maintain a database of known thieves and shoplifters, and keep photos of the individuals. They compare surveillance images with their photo database of known shoplifters, and if a match is found, they must quickly pass the image to local law enforcement so the suspected shoplifter can be apprehended before leaving the area. Speed is of the essence.

The challenge is that surveillance images need to be high quality in order to be matched accurately to the database, and the quality of images from retail security cameras (also known as CCTV cameras) can vary significantly due to the camera’s location, resolution, and the movement of the individual.

MotionDSP’s Role:

MotionDSP’s Ikena Forensic software is able to significantly increase the fidelity of images captured from video so the clearest image can be matched to the database and given to law enforcement. If an employee spots a suspected shoplifter, security staff can use Ikena to quickly extract a high quality still image and verify a positive match. Security can then immediately turn the image over to law enforcement so they can apprehend the suspect.

The Result:

Shoplifters who might not otherwise be caught and convicted will be stopped, preventing further loss. Law enforcement does not typically have the resources to apply video forensic services to non-violent crimes. Stores help the police take shoplifters off the street by providing them with high-quality evidence. Stop one or two shoplifters and the software pays for itself.

Ikena has been designed from the ground up to accelerate video forensics using state-of-the-art, automated image processing that can quickly extract forensically valid results from any video source. Based on patented super-resolution-based reconstruction algorithms, Ikena is powerfully simple, automating into a single click what was once a multi-step, manual process. It's a new paradigm in video forensics.

With Ikena Forensic, you can stabilize videos from hand-held, vehicle-mounted and aerial cameras. MotionDSP’s stabilization algorithm uses motion estimation from up to 51 frames to stabilize video, and is able to remove jitter from the most severe shake. See Ikena Forensic's stabilization in action on the Zapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination (before/after).

Competitive video clarification tools employ manual frame-averaging tools that require hours of manual work by highly trained experts. Ikena Forensic’s super-resolution delivers faster, superior results in far less time by weighing good data over "bad" for smooth, noise-less reconstruction. Even better, it does so automatically in one single click using mathematical algorithms that are precisely reproducible every time. No advanced training or forensic expertise necessary.

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